| Dukes of Devonshire Library (Chatsworth) - Early printed books - 1879 - 494 pages
...HUNTER (J.) CAVENDISH, Hon. HENRY, FRS Appendix, containing tables for clearing the apparent distances of the Moon from the Sun or a Star, from the effects of parallax and refraction. An account of some attempts to imitate the effects of the torpedo by electricity. Read at the Royal... | |
| Royal Irish Academy - Ireland - 1887 - 102 pages
...Description of an Apparatus for Transferring Gases over Water or Mercury, &c. Apparent Distance of Moon. Investigations relative to the Problem for Clearing...Star from the Effects of Parallax and Refraction, and an Easy and Concise Method pointed out. Aran. A Sketch of the History and Antiquities of the Southern... | |
| 1838 - 892 pages
...Observations in the " Practical Navigator," Dr. B. has introduced an improved method of correcting the apparent distance of the moon from the sun or a star, which was suggested by that great man, whom he justly characterizes as " eminently distinguished for... | |
| Military art and science - 1850 - 662 pages
...a station; he described the observations to be made, and gave the formula employed in clearing the distance of the moon from the sun or a star from the effect* of parrallax and refraction, and he explained the method of deducing the longifudc of a station.... | |
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